cromulent

[Steve Kl.]

Of course I can. I've paid for the domain. I *do* have content there, just
nothing much at the moment. It's not like I'm parked on it. I moved off
Peter's material and at some point I'll put up stuff of my own.



On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Ronald Butters <ronbutters at aol.com> wrote:

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> You can't keep rights to a website if you don't use it, isn't that =
> right?
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> Also, I think, anyone could purchase rights to any variant that no one =
> has yet squatted on, e.g., <www.kromulent.com>,  <www.cromulentt.com>,  =
> <www.cromulente.com>, <www.cromulentish.com>,   <www.kromulent.com>, =
> <www.kromulentski.com>,  <www.kromulentskaya.com>,  =
> <www.kromulentskawye.com>, <www.cromulent.net>, <www.cromulent.org>, =
> <www.my-cromulent.com>, etc.
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>
> Also, you can't own a word (as Steve knows), though you can register a =
> trademark for or associated with (e.g., as a slogan) a real product or =
> service if you can convince the USPTO that it is not going to be =
> confusable with someone else's trademark; that it is not generic; that =
> it is not disparaging, scandalous, or obscene; etc.
>
> And of course you cannot claim copyright (or patent) to a single word.
>
> As for whether or not the word CROMULENT "should" be in the OED (or =
> American Heritage, NOAD, Merriam-Webster, etc.), I leave that to the =
> lexicographers, keeping in mind that if all the "fun" words were placed =
> in a desktop dictionary one's desk would probably collapse.
>
> I agree that Urban Dictionary is an "indispensable" collection of public =
> opinion (and stuntful posturing, some of which borders on mere =
> truthiness). But it is not a real dictionary any more than Fox News is a =
> scientific poll of the political opinion of a cross-seciton of public =
> opinion.
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> On Nov 3, 2010, at 2:52 PM, Steve Kl. wrote:
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> > I just wanted to point out I own www.cromulent.com   :D
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> > Currently nothing's there -- it was my late husband's vanity site -- =
> but I
> > will eventually do something with it.
> >=20
> > - Steve
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> > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Paul Frank =
> <paulfrank at post.harvard.edu>wrote:
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> >> So what does a word have to do to get into the OED? Take cromulent,
> >> which Jonathan Lighter once used in this forum: it gets 55,900
> >> googlits (that's more than twice as many as the word googlit itself,
> >> which isn't in the OED either). The locus classicus of cromulent is
> >> The Simpsons in 1996. My guess is that there are hundreds of =
> thousands
> >> of perfectly good English terms in, say, Termium
> >> (www.termiumplus.gc.ca) and IATE (iate.europa.eu) which are not =
> listed
> >> in the OED, mainly because they're too boring or too technical to
> >> interest OED lexicographers. But cromulent is a fun word that has
> >> gained a life of its own. And the indispensable Urban Dictionary
> >> acknowledges this.
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> >> Paul
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> >> Paul Frank
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